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This post is just another quick thought about, why I think you should strive to automate any trivial task in your life.

Why? Because it gives you discipline.

Honestly, in many cases, life-automation doesn’t give you that much extra time. We are talking about a few seconds extra here and there.

However, more importantly, sometimes stuff only gets done due to automation because you otherwise wouldn’t have the discipline to do it.

When I finish up writing this post and post it on my blog, I can easily go to Twitter and share it pretty quickly. But if it wasn’t for my automation system, it might not be done – for several reasons. I could forget it, I could get distracted or I could be less-than-usual proud of my work and thereby simply not do it.

Now, since the process is automated, I will do it for sure, no matter what.

Here is another example. I have a Hue lighting system at home. It makes sure that the lights in my living rooms dim in the evening, which gives me a mental cue to get tired, and think about going to bed. It gives me the discipline to be consistent with my sleep schedule.

My message is: live a more automated life! that is a disciplined life.

If you are a guy or gal like me, who’s passion it is, to gather interesting information, synthesize it and talk/write about it later on, you know how valuable it is, to have your most important information accessible and right at hand at any moment.

I have become a manic reader this last year. I have gotten it into my head, that I want to write for a living some day. So I read many smart lines from many smart people, and I suspect, that there might be a day, where I would like to go back, and check out some of the best golden nuggets I have collected through the years. So I save all of my favorite quotes.

I recently realized, that I feel a small amount of resistance within myself, every time I have written a new blog post.
I really don’t like, the final part of logging in to WordPress, to post it, and have to choose category, assigning a picture as featured and putting in links everywhere in the text.So I thought there must be a way to avoid “the pain”, that is going through the bureaucracy of my content management system.

In this post, I am going to talk about, when the best possible time is, to set a new routine, habit or process in place?
The post is as much intended to serve as an inspirational piece to you, as it is a reminder to my self.

Now, what do I mean, when I talk about optimizing a process or starting a better routine?
I am referring to that constant focus, that I think an effective person, always should put on doing everything in life better, or easier for that matter.